Development of Remote Monitoring Cardiac Patients System Based on GPRS

Nowadays, the electrocardiograph (ECG) is certainly the most effective tool to identity anomalies in the cardiac activity. In this paper, we propose a remote medical monitoring system for ECG data. The system is composed of two parts, which are portable remote medical monitoring unit and the monitoring center. The portable remote medical monitoring unit consists of Advanced RISC Machines (ARM) with the embedded operating system, a custom ECG board, and a GPRS module capable of transmitting information to processing centers. The monitoring center is composed of the monitoring station and the information processing system which realizes information management, real-time analysis, wireless transmission, a warning mechanism for emergency and ECG diagnosis. The aim of this project is to provide an ECG medical monitoring for the user (patient or potential patient) at any time and any place, if there is any abnormal change of ECG data.